Programme Theme: "Enabling Transformational Government Through Web Services and SOA"
At the core of many practical implementations that aim to deliver on the vision of "transformational government" are open standards and interoperability specifications. Open standards for information exchange allow government agencies to integrate systems provided by different vendors, built over many years, based on evolving technologies, architectural concepts, business processes and requirements. Standards also permit governments to connect more easily to their citizens, to businesses, as well as internationally to other governments.
The international open standards consortium, OASIS, delivers the widest range of open standards for Web services in use today. Recent OASIS work on Web services standardisation extends SOAP-based messaging to provide message security, reliable messaging, transaction, choreography and orchestration.
While there is a great level of interest in these standards, many industries are just beginning to implement them and some are still struggling to fully understand the benefits and potential. OASIS and Butler Group invite proposals for presentations and panel sessions that present these new standards and demonstrate their added value to a wide audience.
In addition to presentations focused on specific OASIS Standards, we're looking for case studies that explain how these OASIS Standards address real-life issues and requirements. We are particularly interested in case studies of solution implementations in the public sector.
The Programme Committee is also interested in expressions of interest among OASIS members to demonstrate multi-vendor interoperability of software implementations, commercial and/or open source that implement open Web services standards. Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Web Services Standards and Interoperability
- Overview of the landscape of OASIS Web services specifications and standards
- Related work in industries, other standards organizations
- Secure Web Services
- Introductory overviews of Web services and security issues
- OASIS Standards: WS-Security, WS-SecureConversation, WS-Trust
- Open source software and other implementations of secure Web services
- Case studies of solution implementations for secure Web services
- Deployment considerations
- Role of Digital Certificates and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
- Web Services and Messaging
- WS-ReliableMessaging, WS-Reliability, and ebXML Messaging
- Open source software and other implementations of reliable Web services
- Case studies of solution implementations for Web services and messaging
- Transactional Web Services
- Introductory overview of Web Services and transactions
- WS-Coordination, WS-AtomicTransaction, WS-BusinessActivity, WS-Context
- Open source software and other implementations of transactional Web services
- Case studies of solution implementations for transactional Web services
- Orchestration and Choreography
- WS-Business Process Execution Language (BPEL)
- ebXML Business Process
- Web Services and Service Oriented Architectures
- SOA Reference Model, Framework for Web Services Implementation
- Discussion of methods and functional components for broad, multi-platform, vendor-neutral cross-industry implementation of Web services
- Case studies of solution implementations for Web services in an SOA environment
- Web Services Interoperability
- Web services profiles and interoperability
- Interoperability initiatives, testing, conformance
- Interop Demonstrations
- Featuring one or more of the above mentioned OASIS Standards
- Case Studies
- E-Government applications
- E-Health applications
- Government Interoperability frameworks
